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Values, principles and integrity: academic and professional standards in higher education

Values, principles and integrity: academic and professional standards in higher education

McNay, Ian (2007) Values, principles and integrity: academic and professional standards in higher education. Higher Education Management and Policy, 19 (3). pp. 43-66. ISSN 1682-3451

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Abstract

A brief narrative description of the journal article, document, or resource. This paper is based mainly on responses--nearly 300--to a web-based survey of academic staff in UK higher education. The survey examined their personal and professional values and their views on the values that should underpin higher education. Their perceptions of current reality in terms of national policy and processes and of institutional management expectations, with examples provided of events that disturbed them, raise questions about the longer term health of higher education as it has been understood. The project was seen as a pilot aiming to provoke debate about how well traditional values and standards "fit" with mass levels of higher education provision, and government emphases on the economic role of higher education. The findings are set in a theoretical context drawing on models by Clark (1983), Becher and Kogan (1992) and the author (McNay, 1995, 2005a)

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: higher education, institutional administration, integrity, values, academic standards, standards, foreign countries, internet, surveys, college faculty, teacher attitudes, role of education, economic factors
Subjects: L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education
L Education > L Education (General)
Pre-2014 Departments: School of Education
School of Education > Department of Professional Learning & Development
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Last Modified: 29 Jan 2020 12:41
URI: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/3770

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